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An Analysis of Relationship between the Level of Satisfaction of Domestic Products and Purchase Intention of Imported Organic Products (국내산 친환경농산물 만족도와 수입산 유기농산물 구입의향 관계 분석)

  • Han, Jae-Hwan;Jeong, Hak-Kyun
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.159-171
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the level of satisfaction of domestic Environment-friendly agricultural products and purchase intent of imported organic products. To accomplish the objective of the study a consumer survey was administered for quantitative analysis regarding consumption patterns. The bivariate probit with sample selection model was employed for empirical analysis on the relationship. The estimation results showed that to increase continuously the consumption, it is necessary to improve the quality satisfaction compared to the price, and that it is also necessary to increase the reliability of the certification system and the awareness that the consumption is helpful for health promotion to increase the quality satisfaction compared to price. In addition, it was concluded that in order to induce the purchase of domestic organic products rather than imported organic products, efforts to improve the safety of domestic products, remove the risk of residual pesticides, and increase the reliability of domestic products compared to imported products are needed. Therefore, to reduce the proportion of purchases of imported organic products and increase the consumption of domestic products, raising awareness that the consumption is conducive to health promotion, enhancing the safety of domestic products, and providing accurate information on the safety of imported products are required.

Development of Reliability Evaluation System for I&C System Upgrade (원자력발전소 I&C계통 설비개선을 위한 평가시스템 개발)

  • Chung, Hak-Young;Kang, Hyeon-Tae;Sung, Chan-Ho
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.56 no.10
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    • pp.1852-1858
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    • 2007
  • To Increase availability and to enhance the safety, the modernization of Instrumentation & Control (I&C) systems is considered. The extended use of the digital technology lets nuclear power plants(NPPs) to replace their old analog systems with some proven digital systems. To adapt digital equipment to plants effectively and systematically, however, there must be an essential prerequisite, which is to evaluate current I&C equipment. This paper shows a practical methodology to evaluate the current status and reliability of I&C systems of NPPs using Reliability Evaluation System(RES) before performing upgrades or replacements for systems. The proposed method was applied to KORI Unit 2. The proposed method shows the current status of operating I&C systems effectively for upgrading I&C systems.

A Validity and Reliability of Korean Version of the Student Perception of Patient Safety Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes (한국판 환자안전 지식, 기술, 태도 측정도구의 타당도와 신뢰도)

  • Park, A Young;Kim, Ja Ok
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.479-488
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    • 2018
  • To develop and test validity and reliability of Korean version of the Student Perception of Patient Safety Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes to assess applicability for nursing students. Survey data were collected from convenience sample of 425 fourth year nursing students who enrolled in four universities. Data were evaluated using item analysis, content validity, exploratory factor analysis, and Cronbach's alpha. The attitudes scale was eliminated since item-total correlations were less than .3, on the final Korean Version Scales. The attitudes subscale needs further refinement before implementation. The finding out this study demonstrate that the knowledge and skills scales showed satisfactory validity and reliability. It is useful to evaluate nursing students during educational preparation and in practice.

A Study on Actual Conditions of Industrial Safety Regulations - Based on Petrochemical Plant - (산업현장에서의 안전규제 적용실태 연구 - 석유화학공장을 중심으로 -)

  • Oh, Hyeong-Geun;Baek, Dong-Seung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.81-86
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    • 2011
  • Without a special mineral resources in Korea, such as petrochemical industries, electronics and automotive industries to supply the basic material, but remains a key industry locations. Gongjeongsang dealing with hazardous materials, such as a fire or explosion hazard, and from this site sangjonhae safety regulations to protect human and material disaster prevention activities are focused. However, depending on the actual implementation of standardized safety regulations as necessary if not originally intended, proper objectivity and reliability of safety regulations, as well as impaired resulting in a waste of public and private administrative power and petrochemical industries and the competitiveness of the entire drop factor will. Accordingly, this study petrochemical plant is applied to a representative safety regulations, items for their safety are needed and these regulations as being implemented that was identified, according to a study, some of the need for regulation and implementation both in terms of reliability was low.

Reliability-based condition assessment of a deteriorated concrete bridge

  • Ghodoosi, Farzad;Bagchi, Ashutosh;Zayed, Tarek;Zaki, Adel R.
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.357-369
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    • 2014
  • In the existing bridge management systems, assessment of the structural behavior is based on the results of visual inspections in which corresponding condition states are assigned to individual elements. In this process, limited attention is given to the correlation between bridge elements from structural perspective. Also, the uncertainty of parameters which affect the structural capacity is ignored. A system reliability-based assessment model is potentially an appropriate replacement for the existing procedures. The aim of this research is to evaluate the system reliability of existing conventional Steel-Reinforced bridge decks over time. The developed method utilizes the reliability theory and evaluates the structural safety for such bridges based on their failure mechanisms. System reliability analysis has been applied to simply-supported concrete bridge superstructures designed according to the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CHBDC-S6) and the deterioration pattern is achieved based on the reliability estimates. Finally, the bridge condition index of an old existing bridge in Montreal has been estimated using the developed deterioration pattern. The results obtained from the developed reliability-based deterioration model and from the evaluation done by bridge engineers have been found to be in accordance.

Designing Questionnaires for Better Reliable Survey: Case Study of Using Railway Safety Culture Survey Data (신뢰성 향상을 위한 설문문항 설계: 철도안전문화 설문자료 사례를 중심으로)

  • Lim, Kwangkyun;Kim, Sigon
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.1837-1844
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    • 2014
  • The study of safety culture estimate has received a wide attentions in many other industries, rather in the contexture of railroad stands at an initial phase. A factor analysis and internal reliability test were conducted to check if the survey results are reliable by looking at how the factors are dimensioned and how the questionnaires are sub-grouped in accordance with such factors, and further if there are any other common attributes being extracted as a new factor. The designed 5 factors were expanded to 7 through the test, and they were renamed accordingly. The questionnaires are reorganized according to the new 7 factors. It implicates that thorough investigation of the common attributes is important in reducing the gaps between interviewers' and interviewees' understanding. Moreover, the results of internal reliability test represent the new design of questionnaire is reasonably acceptable with the high reliable values. We expect such approaches can be applied for the railway culture survey study to be more reliable and applicable.

Food safety analytical techniques used in food industry (식품산업에서 활용되는 식품안전 분석기술의 현황)

  • Kim, Young-Jun
    • Food Science and Industry
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.16-25
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    • 2018
  • Recently, the importance of analytical techniques related to food safety is emerging in the food industry due to changes in diet patterns, environmental changes, climate change and consumer's interest in food safety. In particular, food safety accidents in the food industry may cause economic losses such as media reports, product recalls, consumer distrust, and so on. Therefore, a systematic, proactive and comprehensive food safety management system is increasingly required to prevent food safety issues. Efforts to ensure the reliability of food safety are essential by introducing various analysis instruments such as LC, GC, ICP, LC/MS/MS, GC/MS/MS, ICP/MS, PCR, and RT-PCR. In addition, recent food safety analytical techniques used in food industry should be shifted paradigm by developing multi-component simultaneous analytical method, low cost with high efficient analytical method, and eco-friendly method.

Seismic Safety Assessment of the Turbine-Generator Foundation using Probabilistic Structural Reliability Analysis (확률론적 구조신뢰성해석을 이용한 터빈발전기 기초의 지진 안전성 평가)

  • Joe, Yang-Hee;Kim, Jae-Suk;Han, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.33-44
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    • 2008
  • Most of the civil structure - bridges, offshore structures, plant, etc. - have been designed by the classical approaches which deal with all the design parameters as deterministic variables. However, some more advanced techniques are required to evaluate the inherent randomness and uncertainty of each design variable. In this research, a seismic safety assessment algorithm based on the structural reliability analysis has been formulated and computerized for more reasonable seismic design of turbine-generator foundations. The formulation takes the design parameters of the system and loading properties as random variables. Using the proposed method, various kinds of parametric studies have been performed and probabilistic characteristics of the resulted structural responses have been evaluated. Afterwards, the probabilistic safety of the system has been quantitatively evaluated and finally presented as the reliability indexes and failure probabilities. The proposed procedure is expected to be used as a fundamental tool to improve the existing design techniques of turbine-generator foundations.

Estimates of Partial Safety Factors of Circumferential Through-Wall Cracked Pipes Based on Elastic-Plastic Crack Initiation Criterion (탄소성 균열개시조건에 대한 원주방향 관통균열 배관의 부분안전계수 계산)

  • Lee, Jae-Bin;Huh, Nam-Su
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.38 no.11
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    • pp.1257-1264
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    • 2014
  • Efforts are presently underway for developing an optimal design methodology for GEN-IV nuclear reactors based on target failure probabilities. A typical example is the system-based code, in which the results are represented in the form of partial safety factors (PSFs). Thus, a PSF is one of the crucial elements in either component design or integrity assessment based on target failure probabilities during the operation period. In the present study, a procedure for calculating the PSF of a circumferential through-wall cracked pipe based on the elastic-plastic crack initiation criterion is established, in which the importance of each input variable is assessed. Elastic-plastic J-integrals are calculated using the GE/EPRI and reference stress methods, and the PSF values are calculated using both first- and second-order reliability methods. Moreover, the effect of statistical distributions of assessment variables on the PSF is also evaluated.

A Study on the Application of AI and Linkage System for Safety in the Autonomous Driving (자율주행시 안전을 위한 AI와 연계 시스템 적용연구)

  • Seo, Dae-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, autonomous vehicles of service with existing vehicle accident for the prevention of the vehicle communication technology, self-driving techniques, brakes automatic control technology, artificial intelligence technologies such as well and developed the vehicle accident this occur to death or has been techniques, can prepare various safety cases intended to minimize the injury. In this paper, it is a study to secure safety in autonomous vehicles. This is determined according to spatial factors such as chip signals for general low-power short-range wireless communication and micro road AI. On the other hand, in this paper, the safety of boarding is improved by checking the signal from the electronic chip, up to "recognition of the emotion from residence time in the sensing area" to the biological electronic chip. As a result of demonstrating the reliability of the world countries the world, inducing safety autonomous system of all passengers in terms of safety. Unmanned autonomous vehicle riding and commercialization will lead to AI systems and biochips (Verification), linked IoT on the road in the near future, and the safety technology reliability of the world will be highlighted.